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Fall 2018 Visiting Artist Lineup

The Blacker the Ink cover by John Jennings

Cover by John Jennings

The Center for Cartoon Studies (CCS) Fall Visiting Artist lineup is here!  Cartoonists and artists due to visit the school this semester include Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb; Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Mark Bennett for El viaje mas caro / The Most Costly Journey; John Jennings; Hallie Jay Pope; faculty Jason Lutes, plus a gallery show; Georgia Webber; alum Laura Terry ′10; Hartley LinTillie Walden ′16; Danielle Corsetto; Xia Gordon; and Chris Brunner.

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Visiting Artist: Julia Doucet, Andy Kolovos, and Marek Bennett

Tillie Walden's ′16 contribution to The Most Costly Journey

Tillie Walden’s ′16 contribution

EL VIAJE MAS CARO/THE MOST COSTLY JOURNEY, CARTOONING AS A MEANS TO MITIGATE ISOLATION AND DESPAIR AMONG LATIN AMERICAN MIGRANT WORKERS ON VERMONT DAIRY FARMS.

El viaje mas caro is an ethnographically-grounded, applied cartooning project that creates graphic narratives to address mental health issues among Latin American migrant workers on Vermont dairy farms. Due in part to the cultural stigma surrounding open discussion of mental illness, project members sought to develop narrative-based outreach tools. As a culturally-appropriate form of communication in Latin America, particularly for a population with low literacy, cartooning emerged as the perfect medium for indirectly addressing mental health needs through storytelling.

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Pulp Culture Comics Arts Festival and Symposium

Page from Berlin, by The Center for Cartoon Studies faculty Jason Lutes

October 19-21, 2017, the Pulp Culture Comic Arts Festival and Symposium will present a series of five panels throughout the day that explore different aspects of nonfiction cartooning. Drawing together cartoonists, writers, and academics, including CCS faculty and alum, the hour-long panels will foster a rich dialog between panelists and audience. Panels will be held in the Fleming Auditorium (Room 101) in the Fleming Museum, just downstairs from the Cartoonist Exhibition Hall.

You can see multiple current and former teachers on different panels. Sophie Yanow, the newest addition to the teaching staff at The Center for Cartoon Studies as well as a student and a fellow there (she’s done it all), recently released her third graphic novel, What Is a Glacier? Jason Lutes, one of many beloved figures at CCS, is working away at Berlin, releasing issue 21 last year. James Kochalka was a teacher, wrote the CCS fight song, and later became the first Vermont Cartoonist Laureate. Marek Bennett, former applied cartooning adviser, continues his work with summer workshops combining comics, music, and education.

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